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The Great Depression Continued
Test Description: This is a continuation of the Great Depression test.
Instructions: Answer all questions to get your test result.
1) People who could not afford to buy stocks at full price began doing what?
A
Paying back loans.
B
Moving to a new state.
C
Quitting their jobs.
D
Buying on Margin.
2) Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath, the story about the farmers forced to move in search of work?
A
Calvin Coolidge.
B
Woody Guthrie.
C
E.D. Rose
D
John Steinbeck.
3) Who authorized $1.2 billion in aid to different financial institutions in the first year of the Depression, but refused to give direct assistance to individual Americans?
A
Franklin Roosevelt.
B
Herbert Hoover.
C
Woodrow Wilson.
D
Calvin Coolidge.
4) What were people trying to prevent by planting grass and trees in the Dust Bowl?
A
Soil erosion.
B
Flooding.
C
Tornadoes.
D
Hurricanes.
5) What was one of the major causes of the Great Depression that was related to goods being sold in a shrinking market?
A
Businesses were failing and not able to employ workers.
B
Goods were being overproduced.
C
Goods were being under produced.
D
People had no money to purchase goods.
6) Herbert Hoover lost the election of 1932 mainly because Americans
A
Lost confidence in him or blamed him for the Depression.
B
Thought he would spend too much government money.
C
Worried about his priority on foreign policies instead of domestic issues.
D
Thought he would raise taxes.
7) The TVA is significant because it hired people to do what?
A
Build dams and generators that provided electricity.
B
Work on farms to help stabilize agriculture.
C
Work in the automobile industry to increase mass production.
D
Deliver food to the poverty-stricken Dust Bowl residents.
8) Which of the following is a lasting effect of the New Deal?
A
Clean air and water.
B
Whistle-blowers in corrupt corporations.
C
Workplace safety.
D
The protection of the savings of bank customers.
9) Which of the following best describes Black Tuesday?
A
Half a million workers lost their jobs.
B
Hoover lost the election.
C
The stock market crashed.
D
Over 2,000 banks closed.
10) What problems did President Roosevelt have with the Supreme Court?
A
The Court would not give him adequate funding for the New Deal programs.
B
He directly accused the Supreme Court of causing the stock market crash.
C
The Court issued a series of rulings declaring many New Deal programs unconstitutional.
D
He was not given the chance to nominate new Supreme Court justices.
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